Congratulations to all who entered. The First, Second, Third and Fourth Awards listed below comprise the Worcester Regional Science and Engineering Fair's delegation to the Massachusetts State Science Fair. The Honorable Mention Awards have the option of entering as direct entries if chosen by their schools.

First Place

Courtney Onofrio
Hopkinton High School 

“The Effect of Tumeric on Learning in Parkinson's Drosophila”

Synopsys

Hanover Insurance Group

Abbott Bioresearch Center

Genzyme

John Hinkel III
Hopkinton High School 

“Head-Controlled Mouse Interface”

Intel Massachusetts

Mazaika Family Foundation

Kiwanis J. Adams Holbrook Award

  Second Place

Lubana Afreen
Shrewsbury High School 

“Development of a Reporter Assay to Study Gene Silencing”

UMass Medical School

American Chemical Society

Genzyme

Anisha Gundewar, Rebecca Baur
Marlborough High School

“Bioremediation:  Maximizing Efficiency”

Sheraton Framingham

AstraZeneca

Stockholm Water Prize

Benjamin Davidson
Mass Academy of Math and Science

“Automatic Flute Tuning Device”

Bose Corporation

EMC Corporation

United States Army

Patrick Jarvis, Thomas Coburn
Hopkinton High School

“Optimal Nutrient Levels on the Bioremediation of Oil, Part II” 

Unum Corporation

Vitaris Family

Stockholm Water Prize

Gretchen Sileo, Amy Sung
Hopkinton High School 

“Production of Poly-B-Hydroxybutyric Acid in Carbon Sources”

Athena Diagnostics

Worcester District Medical Society

American Society of  Microbiology

Anant Garg
Mass Academy of Math and Science

“Lightweight Concrete:  Shaping the Future”

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Alden research Laboratory

I-Sweep Award

Anne Theurkauf
Wachusett Regional High School

“A Genetic Model for Caffeine Action in Drosophila”

Bay State Savings Bank

Greis Family

United States Army

Sean Horan
Shrewsbury High School

“Wave Energy”

Morgan Worcester

Providence & Worcester Railroad

United States Army

Clean Technology Award

Nidhee Krishnan
Shrewsbury High School 

“Adaptive Algorithm For Routing Through Split Aggregated Networks”

Unum Corporation

Worcester District Medical Society

Society of Women Engineers

United States Army

Abhinav Mishra
Shrewsbury High School 

“Organic-Dye Sensitized Solar Cell: Creation/Characterization”

Synopsys

Abbott Bioresearch Center

United States Army

Ross Lagoy, Ryan Lagoy
Mass Academy of Math and Science 

“Solar Thermal Electrical Chemical Fuel Generation System”

Mazaika Family Foundation

Intel Massachusetts

Eco Tec Company

Danielle Valcourt
Wachusett Regional High School

“Turning Off Mitosis:  Is Cyclin B the Key?”

EMC Corporation

Honematic Machine

Office of Naval Research

Third Place 

Ryan Foisy, Mitchell Culler
Hopkinton High School

“The Effects of Cell Phone Emissions on Drosophila”

Worcester Engineering Society/ Greater Worcester Community Foundation

Biophysical Society

Meghan Krueger, Colleen Murray
Hopkinton High School

“Effect of Vitamin E and Flaxseed Oil on ALS in C. elegans”

Honematic Machine

Sunanda Sharma
Shrewsbury High School

“Investigations in Perceived Information Processing”

Providence & Worcester Railroad

Sarah Dougherty
Marlborough High School

“Lethal Salt…or Is It? The Truth Revealed”

Cranston Print Works

Stockholm Water Prize

Anthony DeCicco
Leominster High School 

“How the Bore Size of a Clarinet Barrel Affects Its Sound”

International Ceramic Engineering

Alex Brown, Kate Richardson
Hopkinton High School

“Using Differential Agars to Identify Environmental Pathogens”

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Services

I-Sweep Award

Brendan Quinlivan
Mass Academy of Math and Science 

“Touchdown or Touchback? Engineering a Football Helmet Insert” 

Massachusetts Medical Society

Bianca Homberg
Westborough High School

“Efficiency of Trombe Walls for Passive Solar Heating” 

Bay State Savings Bank

I-Sweep Award

Laura Nocka
The Bromfield School 

“The Selective Isolation of Actinomycetes from Soil” 

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Ashley Millette
Mass Academy of Math and Science 

“Fueling the Future: Direct Methanol Fuel Cells”

Massachusetts State Science & Engineerin Fair

I-Sweep Award

Office of Naval Research

Nichole Rota, Nicole McKenna
Leominster High School

“Effect of Biostimulation on Bacteria”

University of Massachusetts Medical School

Melissa Diaz
Marlborough High School

“Parting Particulates”

American Chemical Society

Aashish Srinivas
Mass Academy of Math and Science

“The Effect of Temperature on Respiration in Cladonia evansii” 

AstraZeneca

Fourth Place 

Christopher Brodeur
Wachusett Regional High School

“Sea-questration” 

Massachusetts Association of Science Supervisors

Sneha Subramaniam
Westborough High School 

“The Effect of UV Radiation on DNA Replication”

Bose Corporation

Justin Merrill
Wachusett Regional High School 

“Identification of Objects Using Artificial Neural Networks” 

Covidien Matching Gifts Program

Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award

Zachary King
Shrewsbury High School 

“Green Entertainment”

Vitaris Family

Victoria Soal, Victoria True
Hudson High School

“The Recovery Rate of Caenorhabditis elegans from Dauer Stage”

Athena Diagnostics

Charlene Pizzimenti
Mass Academy of Math and Science

“Feathers and Oil Adsorption”

Hanover Insurance

Brittany Jones
Wachusett Regional High School 

“The Phyto-fight:  The Effect of CO2 Intake on Chlamy. Growth”

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Kefu Zhou
Shrewsbury High School 

“Utilizing the Piezoelectric Effect to Generate Electricity” 

Alden Research Laboratory

Air Force Award

Lucas Brutvan
Mass Academy of Math and Science

“Synthetic Plastic Cleat Guard” 

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Sara Birnbaum
Wachusett Regional High School 

“Farm Fuels: A Comparative Study of Diesel Fuel and Biodiesel”

Greis Family

Aaron King
Mass Academy of Math and Science 

“Swarm Intelligent Mapping”

Morgan Worcester

Office of Naval Research

Andrew Ryan, Daniel Cunningham
Hopkinton High School 

“The Effect of Tubercles on Wind Turbines” 

Massachusetts Medical Society

Air Force Award

Stephanie Lussier
Mass Academy of Math and Science

“The Antibacterial Effects of Honey”

Sheraton Framingham

Institute of Food Technologists

Anthony Calcagni
Hudson High School

“Aerodynamic Drag on a Model Rocket”

Webco Chemical Company

Air Force Award

Honorable Mention 

Smita Shukla
Wachusett Regional High School

“Jumping Jeans”

Fallon Clinic

Gregory Granito
Shrewsbury High School

“Maximizing the Gaussian Cannon”

International Ceramic Engineering

Mary Devlin
Mass Academy of Math and Science 

“Embracing Invasives” 

Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Services

Vincent Buffa
Hopkinton High School

“Effect of Differeent Fertilizers on Rye Grass Growth”

Massachusetts Medical Society

Ryan Weeks, Matthew Hugo
Framingham High School

“Effects of Genre on Battery Life”

Optical Society of America

Yaroslav Pysak
Marian High School 

“Generating Electricity Through Electric Motors”

American Chemical Society

Air Force Award

Stephanie Caty, Rachel Caty, Marcelle Durrenburger
Hudson High School 

“Regeneration in Planaria”

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Karl Chung, Ryan Saliga
Marlborough High School

“VPA vs. FA”

Synopsys

Nikki Snyder
The Bromfield School 

“Steam Distillation to Isolate Essential Oils”

Hanover Insurance

Brice Erickson, Jacob Fleming, Peter Mazzaferro
Leominster High School

“Major Drainage”

Massachusetts State Science and Engineering Fair

Alexa Zukowski
St. Mary's Jr/Sr High School 

“Adding a Substance to the Cyanoacrylate Fuming Process” 

Abbott Bioresearch Laborotory

Alexander Newton, Gregory Stewart
Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School 

“Spectroscopy”

Intel Massachusetts

Optical Society of America